Systems Engineer Active Directory

Jayanth Kuchipudi

Systems Engineer

Email: *****************@*****.***

Ph no: +1-908-***-****

Professional experience as a Systems Engineer, specializing in system security, incident resolution, and operational efficiency, with a focus on maintaining the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of IT systems.

Skilled in managing and maintaining secure IT environments using advanced monitoring tools.

Experience as a Security Engineering in medium and large over 30,000 users using enterprise technologies like Active Directory, Identity & Access Management Solutions, Active Directory Security, Federation Services and Cloud Identity.

Managed Group Policy Objects (GPOs), DNS, WINS & DHCP Services throughout the enterprise.

Experience creating Site links to limit the client connections to appropriate sites within Active Directory.

Hands-on experience with patch management and Vulnerability Remediation.

Expertise in incident management Root cause analysis and resolution for minimizing system downtime.

Proficient in ITSM tools like ServiceNow for incident management, change management and CMDB.

Expertise in configuring and administration of SQL databases.

Experience working in Azure and AWS cloud workloads.

Experience on various storage components including NetApp, Azure blob, Azure Files and S3 buckets.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex technical issues effectively.

Proven ability to optimize system performance and ensure compliance with security standards.

Experienced in collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance IT operations.

Familiar with system monitoring frameworks and techniques for proactive incident detection.

Dedicated to continuous learning and staying updated with emerging technologies.

Adept at leveraging security tools to protect critical business systems and assets.

Passionate about automation and system optimization to improve efficiency.

Strong foundation in IT security principles and risk management.

Committed to driving innovation and efficiency in IT and cloud environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System

Windows server 2012, 2016, 2019, 2022 & 2025.

Hardware

Dell Power Edge Servers, HP ProLiant DL Gen9 to Gen 11

Server Technology Tools

HP Open view, Compaq Insight Manager, HP Systems Insight Manager, Dell Open Manage, HP System Tools, Microsoft Clustering, Microsoft DNS, Qualys, Splunk, DHCP, WINS, File & Print Services & IIS.

Backup Tools

Veritas Backup Exec, Double Take and Microsoft Data Protection Manager

Antivirus

Windows Defender, MacAfee, and Symantec Anti-Virus & Endpoint Protection.

Remote Access Tools

Terminal Services, Global Protect, Cisco VPN and Remote Desktop Services.

Virtualization Technologies

Hyper V & VMWARE

Storage Technologies

Azure NetApp Files, Azure Blob, Azure Files, NAS Filers and S3 buckets in AWS.

Core Skills

Server Engineering, Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Identity & Access Management, Certificate Services, Group Policy Objects, DNS, System Center Configuration Manager, Virtualization (Hyper-V & VMWare), Azure and AWS Cloud Technologies, Security & Monitoring tools & Backup strategies.

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

Data Magnus Inc, NC May-2023—Current

Systems Engineer

Worked for a client in health domain as a systems engineer as a valuable contributor in modernization project where they want to migrate their workloads to Azure and support the Hybrid environment.

Roles & Responsibilities

Support and manage various systems in the environment.

Managed Domain Controllers & Services in our Forest.

Active Directory and Security tasks - WINS, DHCP and TCP/IP, DNS, Domain Trusts.

Configured users, groups, group policy objects, service accounts, application layer services and other objects, often coordinated with software developers.

Provided Delegation to the groups as required against Organizational Units for various team to manage their objects independently.

Managed Active Directory Sites and Services by adding new subnets and assigned to appropriate Sites.

Troubleshot replication issues between the Domain Controllers.

Documented entire current state of Active Directory, GPO’s, Performance metrics, Inter Forest trusts, DNS & DHCP.

Administered and managed SharePoint Farm and SharePoint databases.

Manually provisioned sites and site collections based on the needs of the business.

Advised and mentored business users in the proper utilization of site customizations.

Assisted in the resource migrations of servers and printers. Migrated server resources included migrating File /Print, and other functional servers. Monitored, responded, and follow through escalated tickets for Active Directory Group Policy and server operations.

Provided support and administration of SQL databases in a SQL server clustered configuration.

Installed and configured Hyper V clustered environment within Clustered Shared Volumes along with availability groups.

Designed and deployed lot of GPOs using various WMI filters.

Led in migrating scattered file servers to a clustered file share environment providing high availability and scalability.

Monitoring and troubleshooting performance issues like long-running queries in SQL, CPU, Memory, and I/O issues.

Configuring Azure services PaaS/IaaS and migrated database from on premise to Azure.

Experience in creating and maintaining Azure SQL databases using the right tiers.

Experience in configuring and monitoring GEO replication.

Experience working with different audits and address any security related issues.

Experience in SIEM tool (Splunk) to review the logs and analyze to troubleshoot the issues.

Used Defender as security client and analyze the security events through security Center.

Expertise in scripting using PowerShell and Phyton.

Tata Teleservices Ltd April 2020 – June 2021

Data Engineer

In this role worked for a telecommunications domain, Support Infrastructure and data lines for medium scale organization.

Roles & Responsibilities

Installed and configured Windows 2016/2019 Servers.

Worked in CIS benchmarks and implemented Group polices for the same to be security complaint.

Managed shared folders & groups using DFS, applied NTFS/Active Directory file permissions, create user profile and user rights restrictions.

Managed IIS Web servers and support .net Applications in the environment.

Managed Website content and application release and created Virtual directories.

Managed Load Balancing and configured printing and enabled web access.

Managed Patch management using SCCM.

Supported WinSCP for resuming file transfers with SFTP and FTP protocols.

Troubleshot backup issues involved with Backup Exec & TSM

Monitored and alert tuning and coordination

Performed OS/Firmware changes on Environment.

Investigated and resolved difficult issues and participated in trending analysis and maintained release item selection.

Vulnerability remediation against systems using Qualys.

Using PowerShell scripting automated the health tasks against servers.

Took care of all the Escalations and high priority issues.

Created a bunch of knowledge base articles for the environment in Service now.

EDUCATION

NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Newark, New Jersey

Master’s in industrial engineering

SEP-2021-APR-2023

GPA-3.5/4.0

PRASAD V. POTLURI SIDDHARTHA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering Jan-2016-Feb-2020

CGP-6.82/10.0

Affiliated to JNTUK

CERTIFICATIONS & TRAININGS

Azure Administrator Associate – AZ-104 certified.

Azure Devops engineering expert AZ-400 training completed (Pursuing to take certification in 2025)

Artificial Intelligence Training.

Powershell & Phyton Taining.

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